Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Ethnicity, Faith and the Future of Catholicism

On May 25, 2009, Michael Martin wrote an article for NPR about the concern and apparent problem with the lack of diversity in the Catholic Church. In that week’s Faith Matters Segment. Father Reynaddo Taylor talks about being the first black priest to be ordained by the Archdiocese of Cincinnati in decades. The spiritual leader discusses diversity in the Catholic Church and whether the ethnicity of a priest should even matter to the congregation.The article brings some interesting points to light and gets some difficult issues out in the open. In a time where the color of one’s skin shouldn’t matter, I do not think that this is a controversial topic and one not to worry about. With all of the serious issues that the Catholic Church is now facing; scandals involving Priests and the diminishing numbers of men that are going into the priesthood, the ethnicity of a person doesn’t seem like something to worry about. I would like to believe that I am a faithful and spiritual person. These are the times that try men’s souls and test ones faith… I believe that God did create the universe and has a purpose, plan and a promise for everything within it. God can move mountains and do miracles; I also believe that he can solve some problems that we have created.

No comments:

Post a Comment

About this blog:

This blog is an ongoing discussion among members of two sections of Brookdale Community College's English 122 class, taking place in Spring 2010. This class teaches critical thinking and research writing skills, using the news stories of the day as a starting point for investigations. This blog seeks to encourage conversation about important cultural events and developments among community college students.

What each member contributes

Each class member is required to create a new post every week. This post will contain: a link to the new article (or several links, if the student is interested in seeing how the story has been handled by different news outlets), a 3-5 sentence summary of the story, and a paragraph response to the story. This paragraph should identify a controversy raised by the story. If there is no controversy, choose a different article. After identifying the controversy, one might imagine the repercussions of supporting one side over the other, connect the article's contents with other unfolding new stories, or express a viewpoint or opinion about it. These paragraphs should always use a quotation from the argument to help create a strong dialog between the author of the article and the author of the blog posting.

Each class member is also required to comment on another student's post once a week.

All posts are "labeled" with the writer's name so that each student's work can be followed in the label index.